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Lisp and Scheme's histories are tightly coupled. I would say Clojure is Scheme-like in its preference for functional programming and immutable data. I think Lisp is as much an imperative and OOP language as it is functional.

It's probably true but I don't think I recall rich hickey mention scheme once. He said he worked in CL .. it's strange because the minimalist aspect are really close to scheme, but really I don't remember him mentionning that. Funny

ps: not contradicting you btw

...and Scheme is a dialect of Lisp. Clojure and Scheme are similar in that they are Lisp-1s. You can look that up too, but it is a rough reference to a count of namespaces.

Clojure looks an feels more like a Scheme than Common Lisp